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This issue addresses abuse within faith communities, intimate relationships, sexual violence during war, sexual violence within prisons, and working with gay men. It also discusses question oppression, highlights programs serving male survivors, and provides resources.

This protocol from the Sexual Assault Interagency Council provides direction for professionals, counselors, law enforcement officers, prosecutors, and other individuals in Denver who interact with victims of sexual assault, and a framework for the evaluation of their efforts.

This article details a survey of nurses, medical students, and administrators from a hospital system in Alleghany County, Pennsylvania to determine their attitudes regarding screening patients for Intimate Partner Violence.

This web resource provides teaching and learning modules the promote positive body image and the impact of the media on beauty and gender stereotypes.

This document describes specifically how sexual violence affects Asian and Pacific Islander women.

This document provides an overview of labor trafficking for the purpose of domestic work which is prevalent in the United States and internationally.

This report suggests that more than a billion people in the world today experience disability. People with disabilities have generally poorer health, lower education achievements, fewer economic opportunities and higher rates of poverty than people without disabilities. This is largely due to the lack of services available to them and the many obstacles they face in their everyday lives. The report provides the best available evidence about what works to overcome barriers to health care, rehabilitation, education, employment, and support services, and to create the environments which will enable people with disabilities to flourish. The report ends with a concrete set of recommended actions for governments and their partners. *See also: World Report on disability podcast (June 10, 2011)

"We kept reading statistics and observing that men were overwhelmingly the perpetrators of violence against women and girls. Yet, they were invisible to us. We were teenagers and it didn’t occur to us that male violence against women and girls was an issue that needed to be primarily solved by women.”

This toolkit includes resources on trauma-informed care, organizational assessment, and organizational change management. Resources guide the user through considerations for leadership and culture, trauma-informed care structure, policies and processes, employee skills and tools and resources.

The goal of this resource is to provide clear, consistent and straightforward guidance on the essential minimum, core content for sexuality education that is age-appropriate for students in grades K-12. The Standards are presented both by topic area and by grade level.

In 2011, WCADV conducted 6 adult and 2 youth focus groups at DV programs in eight locations around Wisconsin. The purpose of these groups was to understand more about how DV has affected mother-child relationships and learn more about what these mothers and children need from DV programs. The focus groups were supplemented with information gathered from children in support groups in local domestic violence programs. See more of WCADVs materials on Children and Youth at: http://www.wcadv.org/ourwork/children-and-youth

David Lee interviews various men who chose to sign a statement calling for an end to sexist coverage of rape.  The recording discusses media coverage and the impact that messaging can have in the movement to end violence against women.